Your most embarrasing, emasculating, video game moment

[Citrus]

In The Darkness, I decided to run down the subway tracks to see what would happen... They anticipated people doing that, though, because I turned around and saw a blinding white light flying towards me.
That was enough to make me jump, but the fact that Jackie (the protagonist) cried out before being smushed to death... that threw in the creepy factor a bit.

Oddly enough, that scared me more than anything in any horror game I've ever played.

 

[Undead Dragon King]

It wasn't an emberrasing game moment, but I was really kicking myself in retrospect for being a pansy. In Oblivion, I remember one quest with the mysterious haunted house in Anvil. I was scared half to death throughout the whole thing- the spooky decor, the waking up at night only to be swarmed by ghosts right by your bed, the talking lich in the basement as a final boss fight... yeah, I was SO glad that quest was over!

The ghostly enemies in Oblivion always do a good job of scaring the living crap out of me.

 

[Ultrajoe]

Rattatouille - a game for children

IT IS IMPOSSIBLE

my sister proudly walks into the room with the purchase she has saved for a year to get, i obligingly lend her the use of my PS3 (after she pulled the PS2 off the shelf with the controller cord, wireless is a must)

she comes out in a fit of frustration hours later, and declares to me, as only a grumpy 8 year old can, that its impossible, it cant be done, the game is cheating and she wants her money back.

Flexing my gigantic gaming muscles, i take one patronising look at the game and vow to 'help you though the hard bits'

'Its ALL hard!" she replies
'sure it is...' i say, unaware...

My bulging, shirt-straining gaming muscles, masters of FPS, RTS, and whatever the hell you class mechwarrior as, unfold as a cartoony rat dances on the title screen

3 hours later

I stomp out of the room with a look of frustration on my face

"ITS NOT POSSIBLE"

we took the game back, i taught her to play half-life, she now wants to buy condemned... i put that suggestion down and proffered my game-boy with final fantasy tactics inside...

i dont know which is more emasculating... not being able to finish a childrens game, or being beaten at tactics by what is for all intents and purposes... a little girl.

 

[Voodoo Child]

Having played GH3 only once, on Easy at EB Games, I bragged to my friends that I owned it and already completed Medium Career Mode. I was getting it within the week so I thought it would be okay.

Well, I didn't know GH3 would end up at the party that weekend, and I was apparently "the one to beat."

Yeah, still waiting to live that down.

 

[Fragged_Templar]

FEAR did it for me aswell, except I had already seen alma on the ladder before at a friends house and I was prepared for it... The screen that freaked me out and made me stop playing the game for about an hour so, was when I was walking through empty cubicle farm number 246 much later in the game. I was thinking to myself "it's quiet... too quiet!", and then suddenly nothing happened... no ambush... no ghost ninja things... nothing. so I keep walking along, only turning briefly to look at a blinking light in one of the cubicles... and then it happened... Alma appears out of nothing (as always) and comes leap running towards you on all fours and jumps you, only to disappear before hitting you. I was totally freaked, not the screaming kind... the total cognative meltdown kind

 

[darthsmily]

Mine would have to be the Ocean House Hotel level in Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines.
It was the middle of the day, brightness way up and still can't believe how freaked out I was.
I was shaking and shivering, I had a cold sweat and then I turned off the PC and didn't play any game at all for 4-5 hours.
It was so fucking scary that it still gives me shivers when I think about it.

 

[Drugar]

Agreed on the Vampire: Bloodlines Ocean House Hotel bit.

It was 2am, I'd started playing the game a bit after dinner that evening and I thought 'Well, just this one quest and then I'll hit the sack'. I got the key from the construction pad, thunder and lightning cracking through the sky, I walked up to the hotel and one of the lights next to the door burst. Had a slight gasp of scare but I got over it.
The next hour of my life was filled with sublime terror the likes of which I had never experienced (though seeing The Ring later would prove tough competition). Running ghost women, a dude with an axe appearing all over the place, having a kitchen go ballistic at you, and worst of all, the part where you walk into a hotel room, the lights go out, thunder cracks, the lights go on again and GET OUT is scratched on the wall. I could barely resist the urge to say "Yes sir, of course" and get the fuck out.
The second time I played a Nosferatu vampire, it's a lot less frightning if you consider you're a hell of a lot scarier than whatever ghost could be in there.

Also, Alien vs Predator 2; playing as a marine.
From my earlier FPS days, I've been an ammo hog. I usually wait, aim, then pop 2-3 bullets instead of spraying them like mad. The first FPS I ever played (one similar to Wolvenstein, Cyclone something I think) had precious little ammo in the game, and that mentality stuck with me.
In AvP2 however, I emptied whole clips on shadows, spent a minute in the corner of a room just firing bullets at random places in the room just for the flash of light and swore never to play it in the evening or at night. Goddamn aliens and dark deserted military bases.

 

[Anton P. Nym]

Rattatouille - a game for children

IT IS IMPOSSIBLE

I have to agree. I couldn't finish the demo, and I tried for quite a while. It's a really tricky platformer that's lousy at cueing players into what paths are possible and what aren't. The camera kinda sucks, too. Not recommended unless you're really into trial-and-error learning, have cobra reflexes, and can exercise the patience of a sewer 'gator.

-- Steve

 

[Jhereg42]

Playing through Systemshock 2 for the first time, I've quietly made my way though the game's creepy inner workings. Now, though at 4 AM (not realizing it's that late) I'm sneaking through the ship on the edge of my seat because my weapon is about to break and I'm almost out of ammo. Suddenly, I turn a corner and I'm lookin at the belly button a F***ing Rumbler. This is the first time I have seen this monstrocity outside of a brief moment at the start of the game. I'm screaming "DIE! DIE! DIE! AHHHH!" at the top of my lungs, prompting my room mate to come in and ask "What the hell are you DOING?" Sheepishly I turn off the game and say, "Pissing myself."

 

[Silveressa]

Well I can't really call it emasculating since I'm not a guy, but it's still plenty embarrassing.

I was playing Doom 3 a couple weeks ago because I was in the mood for something frightening. (I'd recently finished Bioshock for the 3rd time and f.e.a.r I'd played too many times so the horror factor had worn off so I was looking for something else creepy.

1am, lights off, no one around, I was doing pretty well and not too overly creeped out (after all zombies and fire spitting monsters aren't really scary compared to Paxton Fettle) until I hit the first bathroom, the one where you look at the mirror and it suddenly zooms in on your face as if you're a zombie with a heavy breathing and beastial growl. When that cut scene happened I screamed loud enough to wake my lover clear in the other room and well... Wet my dress. *blush*

That's the first time a games ever done that too me in over 10 years of gaming, (I'm 28 if you're curious) so despite being embarrassed I have to give kudos to the devs for a job well done. (over done?)

The other embarrassing moment was in S.T.A.L.K.E.R where you head into the tunnel after the underground stash. The eerie wind and moans combined with the flashing lighting set the scene nicely, but when I grabbed up a artifact and got double teamed by the two cloaking muties (the first time I ever ran into them) I jumped so bad I unplugged the mouse form it's usb port. (then screamed and freaked trying to plug it back in so I wouldn't get killed instead of just hitting the escape key on the keyboard like a sane person would lol )

 

[Papaya Melancholy]

This is sexist because emasculation would only be relevant to males and in any case demonizes femininity. All further comments have corroborated this statement. Not that it's that important, but I felt the need to point that out.

 

[ShyWinter]

Playing COD4 online on PC and accidentally hitting the Windows Start button on the keyboard. Minimizes the game and leaves you standing around like a moron. Then you have to apologize to everyone if you lagged up the server. Very embarrassing.

 

[smallharmlesskitten]

Playing my first online game of supreme commander and thinking that i was winning and in all my concentraty glory i forgot i was playing a 3 man game and found that said 3rd person was still there when i heard the signal for a missile launch 10 fucking times!!

owned

 

[Voltrox747]

Doom 3: Honestly, this game failed to scare me in most cases (though I did think the beginning was well done), but for me the only things that work are atmosphere and mindfuckery. Flashing lights and zombies jumping out of corners are just so obvious and expected that I usually fall into a game of "guess which wall has a zombie behind it" and since I'm prepared for them, they're not surprising or frightening. Also, as usual, zombies are always in a set position, so once you kill them you know they're gone for good (unless something drastic happens to the area that forces you to backtrack, in which case you can expect some new enemies to spawn.) The mirror scene might have worked, but I just happened to think to myself "this is a good time to have something scary happen in the mirror" right as I looked at it. However, I DID have one moment in the game where I managed to scare the crap out of myself, and it was my own fault. I was trying to talk to a scientist and was holding the flashlight. Instead of talking, I ended up swinging at him and nearly **** my pants when he EXPLODED. I wasn't expecting anything to happen since this was a safe area and I certainly didn't expect a guy to explode just from getting hit with the flashlight.

 

[BaldingSteve]

Back when I was like 6 or 7 I watched my brother play one of the wolfensteins and some RE's and I cried whenever he would kill a dog. It was pretty funny, looking back on it now, but he still mocks me about it.

Also, in the Yoshi's Story on the N64 I cried whenever one of the Yoshis died and was taken to the castle by those shy guys.

 

[Arkeotype]

Whenever I get mauled in Halo by a team of Grunts. Seriously, I'm good at that game. But those little demonic Smurfs never fail to kill me at least once per checkpoint.

It's not just the humiliation of being beat by the lowest caste in the game, it's how they gloat afterwards... "Yippee!" "Me! That was me!" "This's a waste of ammo, but me no care." (fires into my corpse) "Not so tough now, are you, tinman?"

Funniest Quote from the grunts was when I was play Halo 2 on legendary for the first time, walk into the first pack of grunts and promptly get mauled. one of the grunts looks down at my corpse and, in an incredulous tone says, "It DIES?!?"

I fell out of my chair, I was laughing so hard.

 

[L4Y Duke]

It'd be the first time I played Forza 2. I went for a time trial in the Cadillac prototype car in Arcade mode.

Now, I had never played a 360 racing game before. My only racing experience was all on my PSone and PS2. All these games generally used the X button for acceleration, the O button for handbrake, and the Square button for braking. Forza, however, uses the right trigger for acceleration, the left trigger for braking and reverse, and the A button for handbrake.

In terms of hand-positioning, the X button on the PS2 controller is where they put the A button on the 360.

So, with a rolling start I mash the A button to go fast (out of reflex), and end up handbrake-sliding into the barrier.

I'm the only one who crashed off the line at the start of a time trial.

 

[Scott_Berg]

This one is damn easy for me. Conflict : Vietnam (at least I am fairly sure that's the one)

Playing Co-op story mode with a buddy, and we are getting mildly creeped out because the VC traps they use in the game, we know were based on what they really used, and they were very well disguised traps, just like in real life. This gets us a little edgy, but nothing too bad. That is until we hit the VC tunnel system level.

I am not a claustrophobic person, but the tunnel systems creeped me out. They always have, I think about it, and can't help but feel completely vulnerable. So me and my buddy are in one room, and after clearing it out he let's me know he's moving to the next one. I move to the tunnel he's getting in and proceed to follow him. I'm trailing him for about a minute when all of a sudden, I hear he's shooting. Look up at his screen and he's standing in a room shooting at the VC in there. I look at my screen and I am still following the person I thought was him. Look back up as his screen and then it all clicks in place.

I finally figure out that this person I am following is actually one of the VC AI and I scream. I scream way too loud, unload a clip into this guy in front of me, pause the game and walk outside for a smoke. I thought I could go back and play the rest of the level after that, but when we went back inside, I couldn't bring myself to start it back up. Another roommate had to finish it for me. I had never felt more emasculated by a game.

 

[RabbitDynamite]

Getting beaten by the my 3 year old Nephew at a Tekken 2 arcade machine. My soul died a little.

 

[Barciad]

Playing as the Allies in Command and Conquer and launching a frontal attack on Nod with infantry made up mainly of rocket troops. Those flamethrowers are quite an effective unit you know.